Entries tagged with “SQL”.

The Pony ORM project is another object relational mapper package for Python. They allow you to query a database using generators. They also have an online ER Diagram Editor that is supposed to help you create a model. They are also one of the only Python packages I’ve seen with a multi-licensing scheme where you can develop using a GNU license or purchase a license for non-open source work. See their website for additional details.

In this article, we will spend some time learning the basics of this package. (more…)

I thought it would be fun to try out a few different Python object relational mappers (ORMs) besides SQLAlchemy. I recently stumbled across a project known as peewee. For this article, we will take the examples from my SQLAlchemy tutorial and port it to peewee to see how it stands up. The peewee project supports sqlite, postgres and MySQL out of the box, which isn’t as flexible as SQLAlchemy, but it’s not bad either. You can also use peewee with the Flask web framework, via a handy Flask-peewee plugin.

SQLite is a self-contained, server-less, config-free transactional SQL database engine. Python gained the sqlite3 module all the way back in version 2.5 which means that you can create SQLite database with any current Python without downloading any additional dependencies. Mozilla uses SQLite databases for its popular Firefox browser to store bookmarks and other various pieces of information. In this article you will learn the following:

A couple years ago I wrote a rather flawed tutorial about SQLAlchemy. I decided it was about time for me to re-do that tutorial from scratch and hopefully do a better job of it this time around. Since I’m a music nut, we’ll be creating a simple database to store album information. A database isn’t a database without some relationships, so we’ll create two tables and connect them. Here are a few other things we’ll be learning:

MySQL for Python

Elixir is a lightweight declarative layer on top of SqlAlchemy that’s been around since 2006, well before SqlAlchemy released their own built-in Declarative syntax. Elixir was created by a collaboration between Jonathan LaCour, Daniel Haus and Gaëtan de Menten who had a passion for making SqlAlchemy even easier to use. In this tutorial, we’ll look at how to to create our own database with Elixir and how to communicate with a pre-existing database. (more…)